chown and chgrp access problems?
Todd C. Miller
Todd.Miller at courtesan.com
Thu Apr 13 21:59:44 EDT 2000
In message <001501bfa59b$be8ba540$1e35f3c6 at ourtownusa.net>
so spake "Kelly Koehn" (kellyk):
> I just installed sudo 1.6.3 over here on one of my servers and I am =
> giving chown, chgrp, and passwd access to the webmaster to deal with =
> customer webpage issues. I have it so that sudo will recognize his =
> account but when I try to do anything outside of his home directory I =
> get the following message:
>
> $ chown root cam.jpg
> chown: cam.jpg: Operation not permitted
> $
>
> Why am I getting this error? Any help will be listened to!
Because you need to say:
sudo chown root cam.jpg
- todd
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